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7. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet and laudanam addict, mentions an albatross in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".

10. Sir Isaac Newton was warden of the Royal Mint, and set up the use of milled-edge coins to prevent counterfeiting.

I am detecting a Douglas Adams theme - both of these answers are mentioned in the Dirk Gently books.

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6. Three pips is an Army Captain, which outranks the two rings of a Naval Lieutenant.

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2 - dukedoms? (Duke of Kent, Duke of Gloucester, etc)
5 - MIT isn't an Ivy League school
8 - they are all airport names. New Orleans Louis Armstrong, Liverpool John Lennon, Rome Da Vinci, and NY JFK.

Is number 1 anything to do with former US Senator and astronaut John Glenn?

Smurf is off to a goodestart with 3 right .

Jon at Sea - not John Glenn

Dukedoms is close - but what sort of dukedoms ?

Yup - all airports.

Blimey the quizz is almost over on day one - must try harder!!

4. Micronesia?

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4 Jersey?


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If somebody says: "it's not the money, it's the principle" - It's the money

8 Would have been funnier if it was part of that Dan Brown nonsense

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7 iron Maiden did Rime of the ancient mariner

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3. I googled panorama and got Edvard Grieg

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9. there's probably loads of philosphers walks so I'm guessing there's a famous old map of one of them and you'd retrace it in some sort of museum

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Rich - stop googling - its not critical to the reasoning

Jon at sea - sorry missed your correct answer for Q 5 - MIT is not an Ivy League school

Smurf / St M - no its not very small neither is it a tax haven full of free masons

Rich - if you'd just googled Philosopher's Walk, you'd have got the answer, but seeing as that's almost cheating on the questions, I'm not going to post what I found.



(Don't worry Rich - I'm just messing. Don't want that to be taken the wrong way!)

OP it is if you haven't a clue

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No.2: The Dukedoms are all held by members of the Royal Family.

2. The dukes of all those duchies are close members of the royal family. So Royal Duchies is my suggestion

8. Looking for guidance here...are we talking geography? Do you want us to plump for one of the two famous lanes of learning? Or, is it something more esoteric which has been given this soubriquet?

OSB - i think you are intending to refer to Q 9 - ref Philsophers walk - not Q9 which has been correctly answered with - airports.

I have given you all a clue in my response to St Rich above re his googling.

Q 2 - Sarge / OSB yes they are all royal dukedoms - reserved for male members of the house of Saxe Coburg Gotha ( Windsor ) usually sons of the monarch other than the POW.

just for fun now its all over another world cup question

What is the connection between the Jules Rimet trophy and a radio star whose partner gave out money.

Pickles.

Pickles the dog discovered the missing trophy when we contrived to lose it when we hosted the event in 1966.

Pickles was the surname of a radio show host (I can't for the life of me remember his first name) whose wife Mabel handed out the cash prizes. There was a catch phrase which was "give her the money, Mabel"

Oh how I wish I wsn't old enough to (just about) remember this!

No.4: I think that this is Mexico.

At least Rich owned up to Googling, give him a gold star for honesty at least.

And was it Wilfred Pickles Ian? I can only remember him in For the love of Ada but he was old enough to be a star of the crystal set.

Mr Spokes - Jules Rimmet trophy - so close its correct - it was Wilfred Pickles of course.

and if you are old enough to get that one why havent you got number one ?


Sarge correct - Mexico is one of them - the other actually has the words on its flag " Los estados unidas do Brazil "

Dan Dare?

Chris - you are in the right era

Flash Gordon?

Number one - wrong medium ?

Not sure if 3 has already gone - when you talk about a musical Fin are you referring to Jean Sibelius? ( only Finnish composer I remember from my school days )

I didn't google any philosophers anything though, not having a clue about Finnish musicians, politicians, opticians or beauticians I just thought I'd take a wing on panorama.

Of course I get it now, I really need to Yahoo, Bing or Ask Jeeves

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Bleach and Rich - together you are almost there,

Blinking hard this ' not Googling ' - anyway, I mentioned Sibelius and Rich referred to Panorama - you say between us we are close? - so, did Sibelius compose the Theme tune to the TV program Panoram? - just a wild shot in the dark..

10. When you refer to 'mint' could this be the Royal Mint? or is this a reference to confectionary? - go on, give us a clue//

Bleach - Sibelius Finlandia suite - a part of which is the theme tune introducing Panorama. Well done between you and Rich.

The Mint and the mathematician has gorn an been done by yer actual Smurf - see above.

" Bleach - Sibelius Finlandia suite - a part of which is the theme tune introducing Panorama. Well done between you and Rich. "

....... 1 nil to the Bleach and Rich, 1 nil to the Bleach and Rich..

Q1. Are we talking Buzz Lightyear and his boastful behaviour amongst all the other toys in the house? Why the house might be called honourable escapes me at the moment...

For some reason all I can think of for Q1 is Major Tom, from the Bowie song "Space Oddity" (and subsequently "Ashes to Ashes").

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Dan Dire and the Magon from Private Eye

I used the "United States of..." question in my quiz tonight.

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"It's not the despair, Saints, I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand."

Q1 - what a roundabout tour of spacemen etc.

Lets recap - someone( Chris think ) suggested Dan Dare - i replied - " right era " - so forget Buzz lightyear
and David Bowie etc.

I also said that film and comics etc were the wrong
medium .

So some clues - Its british - there was life before
television.

Phil - feel free to borrow and improve on anything.

Dick Barton?

OK, I've found the answer...Andrew Faulds, start of BBC radio series "Journey Into Space" became an MP in 1966, amongst other things he denounced Enoch Powell's "Rivers of Blood" speech.

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and where did you find the answer young Smurf ?

yes Andrew Faulds labour MP for Smethwick formerley played Jet Morgan in Journey into space on the radio.

Was regularly told off and expelled from the " honourable house " for parliamentary language usually directedat right wing tories - he called one a "whited sepulchre " and in an abortion debate suggested that a minister was incapable of " putting a bun in anyones oven "

By my reckoning that just leaves the philioshers walk.

The answer was found with juducious use of the twin evils of the internet - Google and Wikipedia. Even then it took some finding...

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Hang him..

Heinous crime! Hangings too good for em!

No.9: Is the answer Athens? The early Stoics discussed their philosophy in a public place - notably a collonade in the Agora (and no, that's not the shopping centre in Wolverton).

Using the 'SMURF' approach to uncovering answers, I would guess that the Philosopher's Walk is a pedestrian path that follows a cherry-tree-lined canal in Kyoto, between Ginkaku-ji and Nanzen-ji. The route is so-named because the influential 20th century Japanese philosopher and Kyoto University professor Nishida Kitaro is thought to have used it for daily meditation. It passes a number of temples and shrines such as Hōnen-in, Ōtoyo Shrine, and Eikan-dō Zenrin-ji. It takes about 30 minutes to complete the walk, although many people spend more time visiting the sights along the way. Of course, this is just a wild guess and why you would retrace it remains one of those mysteries.

You'd be suprised Sarge, I often stop and have a chat on the way home from work with Aristotle, Plato and Socrates sitting amongst the tat thats on sale in the Agora in Wolverton.

Are they sitting there listening to Claude King?

I never knew that Bleach was an authority on Japanese philosphers til now - I shall bow deeply when i next meet him at FG .

Ok its thursday and we need a little time to think up the next lot so here is the answer -

Konigsburg - as it was - now its Kaliningrad in the little Russian enclave in what used to be East Prussia.

It refers to the regular habit of Emmanual Kant who took the same walk at the same time every day - apparently you could set your clocks by him. Apparently taxi drivers still point it out.

This explains my little cluelet in my response to Rich above that its " not critical to the reasoning " Kant of course wrote the " Critique of Pure Reason " which lots of people claim to have read - but i dont believe them as it is probably the most dense prose i have ever seen.

Well done to everybody - must admit i was worried after the first flurry of answers but a couple of obscure ones kept you all puzzled.

Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable


David L

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If somebody says: "it's not the money, it's the principle" - It's the money

Nope Claude Kings the fool on the hill.

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